I watched this movie not to long ago. Tom Hanks, Amy Adams, Julia Roberts all played in Charlie Wilson’s War. It was about the cold war, Afghanistan and Russia. It was entertaining and kept me interested the whole movie. I think it probably could have ended better. I felt …

I love all sorts of family and children movies and television shows, and Horton Hears A Who is right up at the top of my list of favorites. Horton Hears A Who is a cartoon movie about Horton, an elephant who hears voices coming from a dust ball. What …

In an intriguing spinoff, A Valentine Carol is a Valentine’s Day version of the movie, A Christmas Carol. Of course, in A Valentine’s Carol, the main character must go through different Valentine’s Days in her past and future.
While I found this movie fun and watchable, it wasn’t very …

A very entertaining and vivid look into the stereo typical African American family as it shows how family ties are brought together and strengthened through the use of food. I have always heard the saying that goes ‘the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach’. Now whether …

When I saw that it was an Eddie Murphy movie, I expected good comedy, perhaps something like Mel Brooks’ “Dracula: Dead and Loving It” with Leslie Nielsen, a funny twist of a classic. Well, I was wrong. Apparently, the creators of “Vampire in Brooklyn” meant it to be for …

Synopsis: One year after a Halloween prank led a young man to kill his sister’s girlfriend, they are attempting to start their lives over in a new town. Unfortunately for them, a man dressed as a pumpkin (the same costume her boyfriend was wearing) shows up at their Halloween …

For such a long time I had been meaning to watch Four Brothers. I didn’t get around to actually watching it a few years after it came out. At the time when it first came out I kept hearing people say how much of a good move it …

This movie is about the elite S.W.A.T. Team, on a routine rescue mission when they are called to assist in taking down hostiles at a bank robbery, one of the members jump the gun and took matters into his own hand after he was told given a direct order …

If you are looking for a terrific ensemble film with a great storyline, look no further than the movie “13 Conversations About One Thing”. Honestly, I have not put much thought into the title other than to realize that the stories within are interconnected in a really subtle, …

Hilary Swank is one of my favorite Hollywood actresses, so it wasn’t a surprise that I would the movie. It’s really dark and scary, especially since I watched it alone and right before I was going to bed. I think the reason why it wasn’t a hit in the …

A couple days ago, I watched the docudrama “Shooting Dogs” on the cable television channel, Showtime. It is a British film about a BBC reporter’s experience of being trapped in the African country, Rwanda, during the nineteen ninety four genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutu tribe.
Many people, …

When it comes to horror movies, I’ve been disappointed by the garbage churned out over the past decade. Most horror movies draw up on the cliches that were once innovative at the start of the decade. However, Don’t Breathe stands out for all the right reasons. It’s definitely a scary …

I might be a fairly cynical twenty-something right now, but there are some things that I find that I have not and probably never will outgrow. Two of those things are my love for superheroes and my love of fairy-tales, especially those that hail from places in Europe. When …

Director: Oliver Stone
Cast:
Tom Berenger as Sergeant Barnes
Willem Dafoe as Sergeant Elias
Charlie Sheen as Pvt. Chris Taylor
The story started with the arrival of troops in which one of the troops is Chris Taylor. Taylor was a soldier who has just joined the army infantry unit. Personal experiences that have never …

Four girls, Carmen, Lena, Tibby, and Bridget, have been friendly since. It appears to be fourth already are. Even their birth date is in the same week. One day in early summer holiday, they found blue jeans trousers. Fourth try them, indeed miraculous despite their different body’s pants, but …

Reaching for the Moon from 1930 starred Douglas Fairbanks as Larry Day, Bebe Daniels as Vivien Benton, and Edward Everett Horton as Roger, the Valet. Even so, one of the best parts of the movie was a small segment that included Bing Crosby.
Crosby played himself and only sang one …

The highest leader of a trading company called Noble House, called a Tai-Pan, is going through a difficult time as his worst enemy on the trading market does everything he can the bring the Noble House down forever. A very exciting and well acted feature with Pierce Brosnan among …

Director: George Gallo. Featuring: Antonio Banderas, Meg Ryan and Selma Blair.
It is a really good hearted and funny comedy that would keep you entertained for sure. Meg Ryan and Antonio Banderas have a strong on-screen chemistry and create memorable and lovely characters. The movie can be positioned between …

Once again the vampires have resurfaced and they are out for revenge, in this movie, the sister of the head vampire of the original movie has come to claim the lives of Charley and his friends. Prior to that knowledge, Charley has undergone therapy and is now of the …

The 1985 film “The Goonies” is one that I have now referred to as an “addiction film”. What I mean by that term is simply this, that the film (for reasons unknown) is one that I cannot help but fall in love with. From the cast of misfits who …

I have recently decided to allow netflix, the online movie rental company to chose my movies for me. I tell it which movies I enjoyed and it makes recommendations. I enjoyed Ginger Snaps and Session 9 and it gave me the hamiltons as a suggestion. I …

The film Pretty in Pink has been out for a long time now but tonight was the first time I had a chance to sit down and actually watch it. It was supposed to be a glimpse into the life of a teenaged girl in the 1980s. It was …

An arrogant young man played by Tom Cruise finds out he will receive a heritage from his deceased father, but unexpectedly his brother gets it instead, someone who has a disease that makes him handicaped mentally. The two get two know each other slowly, and they both learn something …

Paul W.S. Anderson’s decision to make a movie based on the 1975 film Death Race 2000 was a strange one. Anderson’s track record isn’t the best one out their, but with the bad advertising this film got you can’t completely blame him. Now that Death Race is on DVD …

When a war time veteran is wrongfully accused of a crime he did not commit, he tries to clear his good name the only way he knows how, and that is by going after the people who framed him in the first place. With his vast knowledge in the …

In late 2010, me and a friend of mine wanted to go and see a nice action film in theatres and we were extremely delighted when “Salt” was released. Judging from what we saw in the trailer at the time, the movie seemed like it was going to have …

I love vampire movies so it should be a bit surprising I didn’t get around to watching the film Bloodrayne until tonight.
The movie was OK but not as good as I thought it would be.
The problem with movies based on video games is they tend to assume you actually …

This is a documentary style film by experimental french filmmaker Chris Marker. It tells the story of the forgotten soviet genius director Sergei Medvedkin, who made a whole bunch of visually stunning films in the silent era, which were all hidden away by the government as they apparently wasn’t …

From 1990, The Long Walk Home is an amazing thought-provoking film that centers around the famous bus boycott that occurred in Montgomery, Alabama back in 1955. It’s all about segregation and equality. We’ve come a long way, as this movie depicts, and yet there is still so …

Even thou these types of stories really aren’t my favorite kinds of movies, I’m not much of a romantic mushy movie kind of girl, but this cute, romantic Cinderella style movie is a nice watch when there’s nothing else on and you want a movie you can smile at and …

One Fine Day starring George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer is one of the finest romantic comedy movies I have ever seen The movie is a very well directed movie with great performances by the lead couple. Michelle Pfeiffer should be given a special mention here. She is so perfect …

Enter The Dragon is probably my favorite martial arts film of all time. I think that the master Bruce Lee really showed people how it is done in this movie. The story is starts and beautiful China where Bruce Lee practices Kung Fu in the great Shaolin Temple. I just …

Alan Moore has been the writer of some of most significant pieces of comic literature, yet his works have failed to be properly brought to the movie screen with success. He was very critical of films like V for Vendetta and Watchmen. He’s repeatedly refused to have …

I just saw the Columbiana movie last night. This is a revenge-driven movie that stars Zoe Saldana. The movie centers into the life of a child that has been corrupted because of a traumatic experience she experienced when she was still a child. Her father was involved in a …

George Miller’s post-apocalyptic film combines adventure and action with a message about the environment where a few years after the film is more relevant than ever.Starring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron,Nicholas Hoult,Zoë Kravitz,Hugh Keays-Byrne, Rosie Huntington -Whiteley etc.

The earth has become a vast desert struggle with few samples of civilization and …

We saw a baseball movie the other night about Roger Maris and the immortal Mickey Mantle who took on Babe’s Ruths homerun record.
This movie wascalled 61, and the two yankee players Mickey Mantle the new favorite of the yankee fans and the new comer on the field the …

Big Fat Liar, directed by Shawn Levy is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America for some language. The original release date was February 8, 2002 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Adventure/Comedy/Family and stars Franky Muniz as Jason Shepherd, Paul Giamatti …

The third installation to the Home Alone franchise offers brand new characters to try and pickup where the first two made their mark. This one, without using the big names like episode one and two, introduces a new child who plans to put a damper on criminals coming into …

“Session 9” is a brightly filmed -dark themed movie starring David Caruso and Peter Mullen. A group of excavators invade an old asylum to remove asbestos and other harmful materials. The asylum has been abandoned for several years (save for the occasional squatters mentioned in the beginning …

Dead Alive is a horror film by acclaimed director Peter Jackson and is rated R by the MPAA
Dead Alive about a young man named Lionel (Timothy Balme) who has been forced to take care of his domineering mother. Things get a lot harder when shes bitten by a …

I was excited to see this movie and it was a major disappointment. I was excited to see it because it had vice Vaughn and Jennifer Anniston in it. It was supposed to be a comedy but it wasn’t much of a comedy to me. I barely laughed in …

When I first saw the movie Aquamarine being advertised to be released in theatres I was eager to see it since it looked like a very cute children’s movie which even I might be interested in seeing. When I watched it I wasn’t disappointed either since I didn’t think …

I must really be a morbid individual because I find documentaries about serial killers, crime scenes, and autopsies incredibly fascinating. Upon renting this one on Netflix, I was immediately intrigued. The mention of high profile cases was of extreme interest to me. And I liked …

Wild Wild West, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for action violence, sex references and innuendo. The original release date was June 30, 1999 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre of Action/Comedy/Science Fiction/Western and stars Will Smith …

I went in to Iron Man 2 with pretty low expectations. Perhaps it was the fact that the studios have had a very hard time matching the successes of the first comic book movies, and I was simply carrying my disappointment at —˜Spiderman 2’ and —˜X-Men 2’ into …

When this movie came out in 1997, I had never even heard of the small child that was being portrayed in the film. I was informed by my mother that the movie was based on the 1956 movie about the return of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna. It …

Django Unchained is a movie that was released in 2012 and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The movie is about an ex slave named Django who goes on the hunt to find his wife, Broomhilda.
The movie opens up with a group of slaves chained together walking through the mountains and …

I keep loading older Looney Tunes cartoons on our Netflix player for our daughter to watch after school and on weekends. One of the ones I loaded recently was Bug Bunny 1001 Rabbit Tales.
Much like other Looney Tunes movies I’ve come across in the past, this one is basically …

When I was growing up, Herbie movies were a staple of our movie nights. Who couldn’t love the Love Bug.
In this latest reincarnation of the car hero, he is teamed with Lindsay Lohan. And, quite honestly, I didn’t like the pair.
While the movie did stick to the family-oriented entertainment …

There are very few people who don’t know about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “The Phantom of the Opera”. For all those who didn’t have any chance to watch it on stage, now they have the privilege to watch it at home on DVD. The value added of watching this …